Metallic sweat-pad for horse-collars



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M. E. LASHER. v METALLIC SWEAT PAD FOR HORSE GOLLARS. No. 351,272. Patented Oct. 19, 1886.

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MORGAN EfLAsHnR, or OHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS.

METALLIC SWEAT -PAD FOR HORSE -COLLARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,272, dated October 19, 1886.

Application filed February 16, 1886. Serial No. 192,121. (X0 model.)

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, lVIORGAN E. LASHER, of Champaign, in the county of Champaign and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Metal Horse-Collar Sweat-Pads; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification, in which Figure l is a front View of a horse-collar, showing my improved metallic shouldershields applied to the pads. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through Fig. 1, taken in the plane indicated by the dotted line :0 a: thereon, for the purpose of showing mode of attaching one edge of the improved shield to the web between the pad and roll, and also showing the aircirculatin'g space between the main yielding portion of the device and the collar-pad. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of my improved metal shield detached from a collar, and Fig, 4 is a perspective view showing a modification of the shield.

The object of my invention is to improve shields or sweat-linings for horse-collars; and it consists in a shield composed, preferably, of zinc, which is molded orso shaped that it is readily applicable to a horse-collar and removable therefrom, as will be fully understood from the following description when taken in connection. with the annexed drawings.

1 have represented my improved shield applied to a well-known construction of horsecollar, A being the collar-pad, B the front roll, and O the contracted web between the pad and roll.

D designates my improved shield, which is made of zinc or other suitable material. This shield D is formed of a single sheet, drafted and sheared from a roll according to patterns representing collars of different sizes. It consists, essentially, of an elongated segment of a cone having its apex a, rounded upward and downward from side to side, its base Z) rounded downward from side to side. I thus form a convex lip or tapered extension, E, which overlaps the collar-pad A, near the buckle attachment A, leaving that portion of the collar which impinges on the back of the neck unprotected by metal, but protected directly by the leather covering of the collar. or skirting b of the shield extends only so far down on the collar as to protect the animal where the draft strain and friction of the load bear against the shoulders. Below the skirting b the leather of the pad and roll impinges against the throat of the horse.

This semi-conical shield is flexible and elastic, and it is provided with a semicircular margin, G, adapted to embrace and accurately fit the roll of the collar, which margin terminates in alongitudinalfiange, d, perforated, as shown in Fig. 3, to receive a leather thong or stitching, 0, which is passed through said perforations, through the web between the pad and roll, and also through perforations f, made through the shield at the bend between the shield proper and its margin G. Thus it will be seen that the shield can be readily applied to or removed from a collar. \Vhere it is applied as described and represented in the annexed drawings the free springy portion or semi-cone affords a kind of flap, which allows a free circulation of air between it and the collar-pad when the collar is on the animal, the effect of which is to keep the shoulders cool, thus tending to prevent galling the neck and shoulders of the animal. The flange, by being against the roll, serves as a brace for the free or vibrating part of the shield.

The semi circular-flange margin G (shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3) may be omitted, and the perforated flangc formed on the rear or inner edge of the semi-conical portion of the shield, as shown in Fig. 4.

I am aware that shields for the neck and shoulders of a horse have been applied to collars and made of zinc and other substances; but none of them possess the cooling and healing properties of my shield, nor do they so thoroughly prevent galling.

Having described my shield, what I claim as n.ewis

l. The combination, with the pad, the roll, and the intermediate web of a horse-collar, of a shield formed with a semi-conical. portion and a semicircular margin, substantially as described, adapted to leave an air or cooling space between the pad and the flap portion of said shield, substantially in the manner and for the purposes described.

2. A metallic shield for a horsecollar, con- The base i sisting of a semi-conical portion, a semicircnand provided with opposed perforations for lar margin terminated by a bracing perforated the fastening, substantially as and for the purflange, and provided with opposed perforaposes described.

tions for the fastening, substantially as and for In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 5 the purposes described. my own I aflix my signature in presence of two ['5 3. The within-described improved article of Witnesses.

manufacture, consisting of a horse-eollar shield MORGAN E. LASHER. formed of suitable material, having the general Witnesses: 7 form of a semi-cone terminated by convex ex- GEO. W. DAVIDSON, [O tensionsand provided with a perforated flange, GEO. H. HAMBLEN. 

